Impressively, staggeringly, masterfully, bafflingly terrible. The first two thirds are very well done. You’re obviously in the hands of a master. But then… I don’t want to give away the ending, but I can’t imagine any greater insult than to wonder whether it’s an elaborate prank. I can’t imagine the author was serious. A friend who adores McEwan loaned me this. I saw him speak once at the 92nd Street YMCA in Manhattan at the time of ON CHESIL BEACH. And I read that and thought it was great, but more just a short story than anything else. I know ATONEMENT’s pretty widely hailed as super-duper, but I have a hard time seeing myself reading any of his other stuff. He just seems like an incredible novelist who is unfortunately a fourth-rate storyteller.
teaching my newborn humility with WHAT ABOUT BOB? "This movie was here before you, and will be around long after you've gone." # 
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Oil! by Upton Sinclair
Nothing Sacred by James H. Street on Netflix on Wii
26 years old, live in the rural northwest of Sullivan County, N.Y., though a native of the South. Obsessed with genealogy and (Not unrelated) Confederate Apologetics. Published in Ellery Queen, had a book out you never heard of, now earning a living playing with computers (Design, tech, etc…).
